Question

In an ASP.NET MVC application I am working on, <text> tags are being used in a .cshtml file.

Example –

<text>some text</text>

What functionality do they provide? I can not find any reference to them on the interweb 🙂

Thanks!

Answer 1

The are kinda the opposite of the @ tags…

Standard in views you are in “HTML-mode”, you can then use a Razor-block like this:

@{
  //Razor code
}

Razor will detect HTML-tags in a razor block and render that but sometimes you just need to show the literal text. That’s where the tag comes in… It switches back to HTML-mode without using an actual HTML-tag…

So some text will render that exact text (WITHOUT the tag>) in your view:
Convaluted example, but this code:

<div>
you have
@{
 if(numItems == 0)
 {
   <text>no</text>
 }
 else
 {
   @numItems
 }


}
items
</div>

Will render “You have no items” or “you have 5 items” for example…